{"id":33943,"date":"2025-07-02T02:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33943"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:34:27","slug":"keeping-cool-by-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33943","title":{"rendered":"Cool by the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025070216.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nYesterday was hot, and people were glad of the water fountain in Roysse Court.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025070218.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDown by the Mill Stream, birds not usually thought of as water birds had joined the ducks and moorhen and swans<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025070220.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n\u2014 drawn by the need to drink or dip their feathers.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025070201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt wasn\u2019t a weekend or school holiday, but there was already a queue of people glad to find the open-air pool open.<\/p>\n<p>The lone parent swan family are surviving. Having lost one parent, there are still eight siblings \u2014 already in the water, they come ashore in search of food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was hot, and people were glad of the water fountain in Roysse Court. Down by the Mill Stream, birds not usually thought of as water birds had joined the ducks and moorhen and swans \u2014 drawn by the need to drink or dip their feathers. It wasn\u2019t a weekend or school holiday, but there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}